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CELEBRITY HOMES

LOS ANGELES - Actor William H. Macy and his wife, actress Felicity Huffman, have bought a home in the Hollywood Hills for about $1 million, including two adjacent lots for privacy.

Macy received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a car salesman who arranges the kidnapping of his wife in the movie Fargo (1996). Since then, he has had supporting roles in 1997 hits such as Air Force One, Wag the Dog and Boogie Nights.

Huffman, a Broadway actress who studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, plays Dana Whitaker, a strong-willed producer, on the new ABC series Sports Night. She also has appeared on the TV series Law and Order, Chicago Hope and The X-Files.

Macy, 48, and Huffman, 35, bought a house with city and canyon views on more than an acre, including the lots. Built in 1951, the 3,000-square-foot house, with two bedrooms plus maid's quarters, had not been on the market in almost 40 years.

The couple plan to do a major renovation of the traditional-style home, which has a motor court, a large pool and a long private drive.

SULTAN HOMES ON COMMON MARKET

Two Beverly Hills houses bought by the Sultan of Brunei in 1989 have been listed at $6.4 million each. The Mediterranean-style, 9,000-square-foot houses were newly built when the sultan bought them. Each house has four family bedrooms and quarters for two maids.

They also share a garden and pool area, and could be used, as they have been, as a two-house, two-acre compound.

The houses bring to four the number of Westside residential properties put up for sale by the sultan since early September, when he listed a house in Bel-Air at $16.8 million and a house in Beverly Hills at $12.8 million.

The sultan, who is 52 and one of the richest men in the world, has been battling a fall in oil prices and a family feud over the excessive spending of his brother, Prince Jefri.

A CHANGE IN LATITUDES FOR BUFFETT

Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett has sold his Key West estate for $900,000 to duPont Publishing, according to a Playboy spokesman in Beverly Hills. Playboy owns about a 20 percent interest in the duPont Registry of Fine Homes, a duPont publication.

The two-house compound will be used as a corporate retreat. The 3,000-square-foot compound has a swimming pool, a wine cellar, a commercial kitchen and a sauna. The property is on a canal that allows boating, fishing and diving.

Buffett, 51, wrote his gold-record hit Margaritaville while living in the compound in 1977. He sold the houses because he wanted to live closer to Margaritaville, his bar-restaurant, and his recording studio in the Old Town area of Key West.

Buffett recently opened a second Margaritaville in Charleston, S.C.

ZANUCK HOME A $20 MILLION PRODUCTION

Hollywood producers Richard and Lili Fini Zanuck have listed their Beverly Hills-area home at just under $20 million.

The Zanucks produced the Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Richard Zanuck, 63, the son of legendary studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, produced Deep Impact (1998), starring Robert Duvall. Lili Fini Zanuck, 44, directed one of the segments of the HBO anthology From the Earth to the Moon (1998).

The couple, married since 1978, built their three-bedroom 11,000-square-foot house in 1992. A Williamsburg Colonial with brick exterior, the house was built on a lot sold to them by singer Kenny Rogers in 1987 for $2.8 million. Rogers planned to build but changed his mind.